The FIRA-AER President & Octavian Morariu, member of the FIRA Executive Committee and President of the Romanian National Olympic Committee, were in Ljubljana on Monday 5th March. During their meeting with the President of the Slovenian Union, Jos Zalokar, they heard about the financial difficulties the union is experiencing. FIRA-AER encouraged the union to get in touch with the IRB to figure out the development tools they could use.

The two FIRA-AER elected members met the President of the Slovenian National Olympic Committee, Mr Janez KOCIJANCIC, in the evening. They discussed the influence of rugby within the national sport context. Indeed, Slovenia has very good results in many sports (basket-ball, handball, ski...) but is having difficulties developing rugby in the country.